Let the Filibustering Begin

Our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage continues as Lee Hutchison sits down with director Toby MacDonald and French actress Pauline Etienne to talk about the wonderfully charming, Old Boys'.

Toby Macdonald’s wonderfully-staged debut film is a re-working of Cyrano de Bergerac’s classic story, set against the backdrop of a rough-and-tumble boarding school for boys. Amberson (Alex Lawther) may be awkward at sports, but his imagination comes to the fore when he helps the handsome school hero (who is more lad than poet) pursue Agnes (Pauline Etienne), the daughter of the visiting French teacher, despite being enamoured with her himself.